On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Kris Deugau <kdeugau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nathan Nobbe wrote:
>
>> Why not test for the type of $name at each point of interest in the
>> SelectBoxOption
>> constructor? If you're passing a string value to the constructor it
>> almost
>> has to be getting changed by the Tag constructor, right ?
>>
>> class SelectBoxOption extends Tag {
>> function SelectBoxOption($name, $value, $selected=false) {
>>
>> var_dump(is_string($name));
>>
>> parent::Tag("option", $name);
>>
>> var_dump(is_string($name));
>>
>
> Ah, that gives... well, it slightly alters the confusion.
>
> Using var_dump(is_string($name)) gives... two results?
>
> bool(true)
> bool(false)
>
> And dumping $name itself gives:
>
> string(8) "Abegweit"
> object(SelectBoxOption)#65 (5) { ["attributes"]=> array(1) { [0]=>
> object(TagAttribute)#66 (3) { ["name"]=> string(5) "value" ["value"]=>
> string(1) "4" ["hasValue"]=> bool(true) } } ["tagContent"]=> string(8)
> "Abegweit" ["tag"]=> string(6) "option" ["showEndTag"]=> bool(false)
> ["children"]=> array(0) { } }
>
> O_o
>
> Just to confirm, I checked a test instance of the site on CentOS 4, with
> PHP 4.3, and I get one "bool(true)" for each <option> - not two as is
> happening with PHP 5.2.
>
probly something screwy going on w/ the old style of naming constructors. 2
things,
1. can you post the Tag constructor as it reads now?
2. try modifying Tag & SelectBoxOption to have __construct() instead of
Tag() & SelectBoxOption(), then call parent::__construct() from inside
of SelectBoxOption::__construct(); see if that clears up your problem under
5.2 (read: this will only be a partial solution as it only addresses one
child of Tag).
> -kgd
>
> (I haven't worked with PHP for quite a while, and I never really spent a
> lot of time getting deep into complex data structures and object hierarchies
> like this when I was using it. But this behaviour does NOT match what I
> know of passing values and object references around in any other language.)
>
Probly because the term 'reference' in php means something rather different
than it does in say java for example.
